Dante - Netflix

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Willie Dante, a former gambler. runs Dante's Inferno, a nightclub in San
Francisco.

Dante is a former underworld character trying to go straight running the
nightclub, but the police don't believe he's completely legitimate and
some of his former underworld pals keep trying to lure him back into his
former illicit activities.

Type: Scripted

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 30 minutes

Premier: 1960-10-03

Dante - Dante Alighieri - Netflix

Durante degli Alighieri (Italian: [duˈrante deʎʎ aliˈɡjɛːri]), commonly
known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (Italian: [ˈdante], UK: , US: ;
c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His
Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and
later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the
most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in
the Italian language. In the late Middle Ages, most poetry was written
in Latin, accessible only to the most educated readers. In De vulgari
eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended use
of the vernacular in literature. He would even write in the Tuscan
dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the Divine Comedy;
this highly unorthodox choice set a precedent that important later
Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. Dante was
instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and his depictions
of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body
of Western art. He is cited as an influence on John Milton, Geoffrey
Chaucer and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first
use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is
attributed to him. In Italy, he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta
(“the Supreme Poet”) and il Poeta; he, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also
called “the three fountains” or “the three crowns”.